Physicist: 'I carried a gun. And learned calculus'

You’re a black kid in Mississippi, hanging with the cool kids and dropping in and out of school. But you’re smart and get noticed by an elite university trying to expunge its racist past. Fast forward, and Hakeem Oluseyi is one of only a handful of black astrophysicists. But he has a plan to change things, as he tells Liz Else

You’ve got a plan to democratise astronomy. Can you tell me about it?One way is the One Telescope project, to be launched next month. We aim to put one research telescope in every country, starting …